Have you tried looking in Highgate Vermont? That town is at the border of Vermont and Canada. RWROBARE@aol.com wrote: > I am looking for information as to whether there was a family of Newtons in > the high Falls area of VT In 1860s. My great grandfather was David Silas > Newton. On a NY census record it lists his birth place as High Hail Vermont. > I have not been able to find that there ever was such a place. His wife was > born in Canada so I am now checking near the Canadian border.